I want to start a blog that will be focused on food, but not really on recipes -- more explorations of unusual ingredients or dishes, etymologies of food-related terms or phrases and round-ups of food-related articles and books, with the occasional related recipe. Think food blog meets
Brain Pickings. I would like to convey the qualities of curiosity, exploration, adventure or discovery. Short and pithy, easily google-able and not already squatted on would be definite pluses. I'm thinking of using Wordpress as my blogging platform. Blogposts I am thinking of writing include:
Blind taste testing an Indian dish cooked with or without the stinky resin asafoetida
A review of the Hesses' A Taste of America
How the chile pepper went from unknown to ubiquitous in Indian cooking over a few hundred years
Old menus and ephemera
Foods mentioned in Enid Blyton's children's books
Pickled cabbage from kimchee to sauerkraut
I am from India so some posts are likely to be Indian-food focused, though I don't intend to limit the blog to that. So far my efforts haven't really yielded anything great. I thought of Curiosity Kills the Cook -- but that's already taken. Someone suggested Ravenous as a suggestion in another name-my-food-blog AskMe question, but that seems to be taken as well. That does convey the quality of being hungry for new food and new information that I'm trying to convey.
Any ideas?
posted by fix at 9:07 AM on June 26, 2012